Protestants are also more likely than Catholics to say they struggle with procrastination (57% to 51%) and being lazy (40% to 28%). (The study identifies practicing Christians as those who "have attended a church service in the past month and say their religious faith is very important in their life.")

If you will, you can become all flame.Extra caritatem nulla salus.In order to become whole, take the "I" out of "holiness". सर्वभूतहितἌνω σχῶμεν τὰς καρδίας"Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is." -- Mohandas GandhiY dduw bo'r diolch.

Protestants are also more likely than Catholics to say they struggle with procrastination (57% to 51%) and being lazy (40% to 28%). (The study identifies practicing Christians as those who "have attended a church service in the past month and say their religious faith is very important in their life.")

Well can you blame them? They don't really have any fasting traditions to guide them like we have.

You think? You might want to look at Puritanism again. Start with the various days of thanksgiving.

EDIT: Only those obsessed with not eating would care about doing so. The law judges us, as St. Paul said and Kant further developed to explain unbeknownst to him at the time neurosis of modernity which more than a few *ahem* posters here continually demonstrate. The law remains within modernity but it is denuded of content so we are judged guilty but never knowing the why. Extreme neurotics focus this anxiety into a single or a few aspects of their lives to better manage their more acute awareness of this fact. Others attempt to fill in the law once again, hence the flight to fundamentalism or all sorts. Christian freedom per St. Paul doesn't seem to be for everyone.

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Often when Paul speaks on law, he means some law in the old testament, and not the holy commandments, which the Lord gave us.When I had been practicing faith in a protestant way (I was baptized orthodox) I felt much less guilt as believing and acting in the orthodox way. It's not the law, which condemns us. The more the light of Christ shines on your soul, the more contrition in your heart you'll feel.

Often when Paul speaks on law, he means some law in the old testament, and not the holy commandments, which the Lord gave us.When I had been practicing faith in a protestant way (I was baptized orthodox) I felt much less guilt as believing and acting in the orthodox way. The more the light of Christ shines on your soul, the more contrition in your heart you'll feel.

Perhaps, I cannot argue with your feelings but I can take issue with the dichotomy between "some law in the old testament" with the "holy commandments".

There is an interesting tension between St. Paul's discussion on Christian freedom and Christ's perfecting "some law in the old testament".

Are we still on topic?

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